The problem with definitions is, they suggest a finality that does not exist. Definitions hold only in a historical context, for much less than a human lifetime. Our condition of being is change without end. Thinking is no system of toy blocks. It is a process of life, goes with the swirling stream of beings. This is why poets are often closer to truth. They know, the published poem is a fallacy. Only that which is in the making can grasp it.

#ethics of #philosophy
#benjamin #malabou

In a pragmaticist view, production may indeed be the limit of prediction. Prediction converges in production, and the truth of prediction is the working of a production. That working is working in a particular environment, which is again changed by production - future. A system that is able to predict/produce further in such a changed environment may be called a plastic system. It changes with its changing of environment.

#AI #plasticity #intelligence #Malabou
@philosophy

And all this together would be wasted without the stories we have to tell, without history.

It is not true, that everything about humans can be found in the brain. Such a #neuroscience reductionism would completely miss the specific nature of our species.

It may even be questioned, if #intelligence is to be found in a singular individual.

An insight of #Malabou’s “Morphing Intelligence” is that all intelligence is collective and cannot belong to anyone.

#ai #politics #property

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Medea, il desiderio e la cura
Ancora sul desiderio (parte IV) Qui le altre tre
Che il soggetto sia soggetto di desiderio o, meglio ancora, che sia determinato dal lavoro del desiderio è un assunto che gira intorno a Hegel (in particolare al passo della Fenomenologia dello spirito su “Signoria e Servitù”)
https://www.perunaltracitta.org/homepage/2023/02/18/medea-il-desiderio-e-la-cura/
#Perun’ecologiaanticapitalistadeldigitale. #Rubriche #Butler #desiderio #Diotima #ead #Malabou #Medea

In Human Nature and Conduct,1922, p23 #Dewey says:

„Every ideal is preceded by an actuality; but the ideal is more than a repetition in inner image of the actual.“

The full dialectics may require to add something like: any actual is accompanied by an ideal, that is, the shaping of an actual, that constantly transcends its form.

Wonder how Catherine #Malabou would read Dewey.

@philosophy @WorldImagining

In Human Nature and Conduct,1922, p23 #Dewey says:

„Every ideal is preceded by an actuality; but the ideal is more than a repetition in inner image of the actual.“

The full dialectics may require to add something like: any actual is accompanied by an ideal, that is, the shaping of an actual, that constantly transcends its form.

Wonder how Catherine #Malabou would read Dewey.

@philosophy